VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contract Job Trends

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 439 543
Rank change year-on-year -106 +104 +132
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 81 85 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.55% 0.95% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 62 40
10th Percentile £460 £494 £318
25th Percentile £468 £525 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £474
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% +21.37% -2.82%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £556
90th Percentile £661 £693 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £575 £467
% change year-on-year -13.70% +23.17% -6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.38 - -
90th Percentile £96.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,597 8,965 13,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 30.38% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,602 5,632 8,384
10th Percentile £333 £285 £293
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £650
90th Percentile £721 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,085 468 1,023
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.42 £18.16
Median hourly rate £29.00 £45.00 £38.95
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% +15.53% -22.10%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £61.62
90th Percentile £84.00 £82.15 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +25.00% -18.36%

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) job vacancy trend in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in the UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -119 55 £550 -4.35% 30
Work from Home -10 43 £564 +0.22% 14
UK excluding London -115 35 £496 -13.70% 24
London -50 18 £575 -4.17% 10
North of England -64 12 £460 -8.00% 4
North West -28 10 £460 +5.14% 4
South West -59 10 £553 -3.91% 8
South East -58 8 £569 -9.44% 11
Midlands -57 3 £475 -32.14%
Scotland - 3 £450 -
Yorkshire -59 2 £456 -8.75%
West Midlands -65 2 £450 -35.71%
East Midlands - 1 £550 -

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.41%) Confluence
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.22%) Azure
2 7 (8.64%) AWS
3 6 (7.41%) Nutanix
4 5 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.58%) Firewall
1 11 (13.58%) VSAN
2 9 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
3 8 (9.88%) DHCP
3 8 (9.88%) DNS
4 5 (6.17%) SAN
4 5 (6.17%) VPN
5 4 (4.94%) Network Security
6 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.47%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.47%) IPFIX
7 2 (2.47%) PCoIP
7 2 (2.47%) VXLAN
7 2 (2.47%) WAN
8 1 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.23%) DMVPN
8 1 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (1.23%) NAS
8 1 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) JIRA
2 5 (6.17%) Bitbucket
2 5 (6.17%) Git
3 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 31 (38.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.64%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Finance
5 2 (2.47%) Banking
5 2 (2.47%) Electronics
5 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.47%) Marketing
5 2 (2.47%) Military
5 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.23%) Advertising
6 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 31 (38.27%) Consultant
2 29 (35.80%) VMware Consultant
3 13 (16.05%) VMware Engineer
4 10 (12.35%) Azure Consultant
4 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Hyper-V Consultant
5 8 (9.88%) PowerShell Consultant
5 8 (9.88%) Principal Consultant
5 8 (9.88%) Wintel Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior
7 6 (7.41%) Architect
7 6 (7.41%) PowerShell Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) VMware Architect
9 3 (3.70%) VMware Specialist
10 2 (2.47%) Lead
10 2 (2.47%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) REST
2 2 (2.47%) Flash
3 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) Replication
2 10 (12.35%) Clustering
2 10 (12.35%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.41%) PKI
4 2 (2.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.47%) NVMe
4 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.47%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.47%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.16%) Windows
2 15 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 9 (11.11%) Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (16.05%) Migration
2 13 (16.05%) Network Virtualisation
2 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (14.81%) High Availability
3 12 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (13.58%) Agile
5 10 (12.35%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (8.64%) System Testing
7 6 (7.41%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (7.41%) ITIL
7 6 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (7.41%) Service Management
7 6 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (6.17%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (6.17%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (6.17%) Project Delivery
8 5 (6.17%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 56 (69.14%) PowerShell
2 50 (61.73%) Python
3 32 (39.51%) JavaScript
4 8 (9.88%) Bash
5 4 (4.94%) SQL
6 2 (2.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 58 (71.60%) Security Cleared
2 54 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 23 (28.40%) VCAP
4 14 (17.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (16.05%) MCSA
5 13 (16.05%) MCSE
6 8 (9.88%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (8.64%) CCNP
8 6 (7.41%) OCA
8 6 (7.41%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (4.94%) Degree
10 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
10 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.70%) CCNA
10 3 (3.70%) RHCA
10 3 (3.70%) RHCE
11 2 (2.47%) HP ASE
11 2 (2.47%) VCDX
11 2 (2.47%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 42 (51.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (32.10%) vSphere
3 21 (25.93%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (20.99%) VMware NSX
5 14 (17.28%) Hyper-V
5 14 (17.28%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (12.35%) Active Directory
7 4 (4.94%) Docker
8 2 (2.47%) KVM
9 1 (1.23%) Firmware
9 1 (1.23%) SRDF
9 1 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (41.98%) vRealize
2 27 (33.33%) Ansible
3 20 (24.69%) vCenter Server
4 10 (12.35%) Terraform
5 9 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (9.88%) PowerCLI
7 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
7 4 (4.94%) vMotion
8 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.70%) Puppet
9 2 (2.47%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.47%) Grafana
10 1 (1.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 81 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (25.93%) Microsoft
3 12 (14.81%) Cisco
4 4 (4.94%) Veeam
5 3 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.70%) Dell
5 3 (3.70%) Oracle
5 3 (3.70%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.47%) 3PAR
6 2 (2.47%) Brocade
6 2 (2.47%) Citrix
6 2 (2.47%) Commvault
6 2 (2.47%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.47%) NetApp
6 2 (2.47%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (2.47%) ProCurve
6 2 (2.47%) SAP
7 1 (1.23%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.23%) F5
7 1 (1.23%) Juniper